Holland > Hungary > Spain
Same @almodozo as on Twitter, just without the Országház. Worked at OSF and CEU, but that's a long while ago. Studied East-European History, but that's even longer ago. Now, somehow, I ended up in Extremadura.
Joost
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Interesting that the Reform vote is stable across Makerfield by-election polls, but the Labour vote varies quite a lot
Joost
Kristallnacht echoes in Belfast
All those unrepentant neighbours proudly recalling events.
"One neighbour said that specific houses where ethnic minority families lived had been targeted, and that Catholics had come to the largely loyalist area to join in the violence. “That’s a first,” he said."
Can't get used to seeing Spanish news items about Carlos, Guillermo and Enrique, and it's about the British royal family
How a Romanian family was forced to flee their home last night: "The house was pelted with bricks, and lit fireworks were shoved through the letterbox. Another neighbour helped the family to escape after men in balaclavas broke down the door."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Not that catholic communities will be immune to an anti-immigrant turn, though these scenes are a lot less likely there for obvious reasons. I don't like the framing of Lynch's post, nor that of the IRSP statement; but without endorsing either they give a sense of how the ground might start to shift
Northern Irish Unionists bringing back pogroms
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
